Example sentences of "[was/were] be [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of November over 5,000 people were estimated to have left Haiti , of whom some 3,500 were being held aboard United States vessels or at US bases , and over 1,000 were being cared for by the Cuban authorities . |
| 2 | Parliament was , however , peremptorily told by the King not to proceed with the matter , because the Company 's affairs were being dealt with by the Crown . |
| 3 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 4 | Now the area was being done up by the young middle class , he stubbornly refused to paint his house and remained firmly working class to the extent of asking the Council to bring back his outside toilet . |
| 5 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 6 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |